I have to admit that on certain websites, I don’t really pay much attention. I scan the articles that I usually scan and don’t spend a lot of time focusing on whatever gimmick they’ve trotted out this particular week.
Mark Richard Film Nears Release
The New York Times ran a detailed piece on film director Kimberly Pierce recently. She helmed the critically acclaimed Boys Don’t Cry in 1999.
I’m Not Going to Miss All the Mis-Statements
So is the addition of “mis” before a word now an admission you’ve been caught doing something you regret? Is “mis”
So, Some Companies are Evidently Fact Checking
Tom Sykes writes about how his publisher went over his memoir “with a fine-tooth comb.” I especially love how Sykes has to send out his memoir to the people involved for their confirmation.
Dangerous Writing
Here’s an interesting article about the lengths Roberto Saviano has to go to for safety after his book,
Interview: Dan Crane, Author
Admit it. You’ve done it. We all have at one time or another. As kids in our bedrooms. As drunken adults at a wedding reception.
Richard Price at Square Books
I’m jealous of my old colleagues at Square Books in Oxford, MS since Richard Price is appearing there today.
Just Do Your Job
People often ask me how to get a freelancer writing career (any writing career for that matter) off the ground.
Happy St. Patrick’s Day
Happy St. Patrick’s Day everyone. Be sure to read some of your favorite Irish literature prior before heading into the night to swill green beer.
Crazy Week
Sorry for the lack of posting this week. It’s been incredibly hectic. Hopefully I’ll be back on a normal posting schedule tomorrow.
Frazier on Hannah
Charles Frazier examines Barry Hannah’s Airships for Paste.
“Hannah’s language is audacious, bracing and insistent, often at the ragged brink of control,”
Don’t Be Too Proud, Bob
Meanwhile, Bob Thompson of The Washington Post pounds his chest and brags about the heroic virtues of newspaper fact-checking in “True or False: Book Publishers Can Avoid the Agony of Deceit”
Face It, We Love this Stuff
So everyone is arguing about who is to blame when fake writers (a la Frey, Jones, Nasdijj, et al) are discovered.
More Fake Memoirs
Two more cases of fictional memoirs… This time, a bestselling Holocaust memoir turned out to be fake. As The New York Times writes,
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